Band 7 Neurophysiotherapist - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham
Description
Job overview:
Are you an experienced Band 6 Physiotherapist looking to take that next step into a band 7 post looking for a new challenge whilst continuing to develop your clinical practice and leadership skills.
The post holder will have a diverse caseload of complex neurological patients and be instrumental in the development of the nitrous oxide addiction pathway.
We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated, innovative physiotherapists who would be able to support the ongoing restoration of neurology services.
You will join our dynamic team of therapists who strive towards holistic recovery and regaining independence following admission, we are committed to continued professional and career development of all staff.
Main duties, tasks & skills required:
- To take a lead role within the neurology in patient team, providing advanced Physiotherapy assessment and treatment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions. To use specialist skills to effectively manage caseload, work priorities including service delivery, patient and professional demands.
- To be a source of expertise, to identify, analyse, evaluate and problem solve to enable the development and delivery of individualized intervention and treatment programmes in a variety of settings.
- To provide a consultative role with relatives and staff providing advice, recommendations
- To provide leadership and management on a daily basis to the therapy team
- To supervise, educate and assess the performance of students as required.
- To deliver training to multidisciplinary team members ensuring competence in performing duties within their agreed scope of practice.
- To lead in training and development of clinical practice and service. To undertake clinical audits and evaluation of evidence based practice, initiating/participating in research within specialist area
- To work in close collaboration with carers and community teams as applicable to patients need to support rehab process.
About us:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.
This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work.
This is more than words. We are taking action.Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO.
We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification:
Qualifications:
Essential:
Degree or diploma in Physiotherapy
Registered with HCPC
Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to stroke & neurology and management/ leadership training
Experience:
Essential:
Strong leadership skills
An understanding stroke & neurological conditions
Broad range of skills in stroke & neurology
Highly developed communication, presentation & supervisory skills
Proven problem solving, clinical reasoning & decision making.
Committed to patient centred care
Knowledge & practice of HCPC & profession specific standards & guidelines
Broad range of experience at a senior level in stroke & neurology
Managing staff e.g. junior staff & support workers.
Multi-disciplinary working
Audit
Team/service development
Implement change management on small or large scale
Experience of dealing with people who display inappropriate behaviours e.g. verbal or physical aggression, in sensitive and potentially hostile situations
A specialist knowledge across a range of Physiothera
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